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GLP-1

A collection of 6 posts

Illustrated scene of a patient meeting with a clinician to discuss GLP-1 treatment, surrounded by icons representing dosing, digestion, muscle and bone health, nutrition, and treatment.

Ten Questions Worth Bringing to Your Next GLP-1 Appointment

Useful questions cover five areas: how your dose will be escalated, what to expect from digestion, how muscle and bone get monitored, what nutrition should look like while your appetite is down, and what the plan is if you stop. Your clinician directs all of it. Appointments run fifteen minutes.

Illustrated comparison of Ozempic and Mounjaro showing pathways alongside gut microbiome imagery

Mounjaro and Ozempic Are Not the Same Drug and Your Gut Knows the Difference

Ozempic works on the GLP-1 receptor. Mounjaro and Zepbound work on GLP-1 and GIP. Early research suggests GIP activation may affect the gut microbiome in its own way. How your body responds is individual, and sequencing is how you see your version of it. People talk about these

Illustrated graphic explaining the GLP-1 lawsuit and the often-overlooked question of muscle loss, featuring a GLP-1 injection, digestive and eye icons, muscle imagery, and health data.

Biomarker Analysis

The GLP-1 Lawsuit Explained, and the Muscle Loss Question It Leaves Out

A viral video circulating on X describes the latest happening with GLP-1 medications in stark terms: a "$2 billion lawsuit." The creator goes on to explain that patients have lost decades of muscle in a single year, and report stomach paralysis, blindness, teeth loss, and organ failure.

Illustrated infographic showing how GLP-1 medications may be connected to digestive symptoms and nutrient gaps. A central stomach and gut surrounded by microbiome imagery.

GLP-1s and Nutrient Gaps: The Quiet Side Effect

GLP-1 medications can cause nausea, bloating, and constipation, and when combined with eating less, that can leave nutritional deficiencies. Losing weight and being well-nourished are separate things. Your gut's ability to absorb is where the two meet. The weight conversation around GLP-1 medications is loud.

Why Weight Often Returns After You Stop a GLP-1

Why Weight Often Returns After You Stop a GLP-1

When people stop taking a GLP-1, research shows many of the metabolic effects start reversing within weeks, and weight often returns while lost muscle mass does not. That is biology responding to a drug leaving the system. Willpower has little to do with it. Your gut microbiome is one

You Started Ozempic or Mounjaro. Here’s What Is Happening Inside Your Gut Right Now.

You Started Ozempic or Mounjaro. Here’s What Is Happening Inside Your Gut Right Now.

GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro slow gastrointestinal motility at all levels of the gut, like how fast your stomach empties, and that change reshapes the community of bacteria and other microbes that live in your gut. While many people will experience growth of healthy gut microbes, some people